Why the District of Columbia should get an equal right to vote
Monica Palacio |
TEDxMidAtlantic
• September 2015
If you're a law-abiding American citizen, you've entered a social contract whose terms guarantee services and protections from the government, and the right to vote for the people and laws that provide them. Unless, that is, you live in the District of Columbia, the nation's capital. Civil rights lawyer Mónica Palacio explains how DC came to lack voting representation in Congress -- and why it needs to change.